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Genre(s): Folk, GlobalFrom: Styria, Austria
Website: www.claudiaschwab.com/
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Contact: contact.cschwab@gmail.com
BIOGRAPHY
Sligo-based Austrian violinist/singer/yodeler/loop-artist and composer Claudia Schwab has performed on numerous recordings and collaborated with a range of cross-genre artists both established and emerging. She has published three CDs of original work in 2014 (Amber Sands), 2017 (Attic Mornings), and 2024 (Went To Walk), which received a variety of excellent reviews by magazines and radio stations. She was commissioned to write for the National Concert Hall, Dublin in 2019 and was awarded a Next Generation Bursary Award from the Irish Arts Council (2019), the Neuer Deutscher Jazzpreis (2019) and a Hubert Von Goisern Förderpreis (2020). Never shy of crossing borders between genres, traditions and conventions, Claudia’s compositions weave together funk-beat yodels, blend Irish reels with Indian ragas and enrich Alpine harmonies with Balkan melos.
Her show takes the audience on a mesmerising journey across the sound-worlds of Indian classical, Irish, Austrian and Eastern European music traditions, presenting an introspective body of folk-inspired songs with experimental elements. We hear of unfinished love stories, the yearning to be left alone, a longing to be surrounded by nature and reflections on the startling lack of being present in our own lives. Alongside her solo show Claudia currently performs with the Claudia Schwab Quartet, Los Hostes, Trio Hupsala, Plúirín na mBan, the Irish Gamelan Orchestra, the Kate Young Quintet and Cathy Jordan’s Crankie Island Song Project. Her tours have brought her all across Europe, over to India, Indonesia, Egypt, Canada, Taiwan and the US.